Justin Trotter @astrosyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Depts. Neurosciences & Neurobiology. Astrocyte-synapse interactions, neuroimmune interactions, & super res. microscopy. Cat dad. Check out our lab’s new site: trotterlab.com
Michael Williamson @m-r-williamson.bsky.social PI at The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto studying astrocyte biology, memory, neural repair. 🇨🇦
williamsonlab.ca
Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social Associate professor, University of Oregon
Follows your nose
https://github.com/Smear-Lab
https://ion.uoregon.edu/research/faculty-page/270
https://niceinneuro.org/
Alex Keyes, PhD @neuropharmnerd.bsky.social neuro nerd. aspiring artist. UIowa PhD - Pharmacology. Interested in neuro-immune interactions in the spinal cord. my opinions are my own. they/them
Katie Bryant @katiegbry.bsky.social Postdoc in Lapish Lab at IUSM | interested in all things behavior, learning, and addiction
William M. McCallum @willieneuro.bsky.social Perpetually curious about brains and biology
Neuroscience PhD Candidate . . . 🧠🧐. . .
Alvarez Lab 🐭 & Sober Lab 🐔 :: he/him
Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social learning | neuroethology | basal ganglia | birdsong | decision-making | natural history | Current K99 Postdoc Rich Mooney @Duke | PhD Christina Gremel @UC San Diego
On the faculty job market 2026-27: https://drewschreiner.github.io/
Estefania Sanchez-Vasquez @niasv.bsky.social NICHD T32 fellow
HSRU postdoctoral fellow
Pew Latin American fellow
Development & Stem cell bio
🌈 UNMSM 🇵🇪 UNSAM 🇦🇷 UCSC/Caltech 🇺🇸
Joseph D. Zak @josephdzak.bsky.social Neurobiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago studying sensory cells and neural circuits. #Neuroscience and #Olfaction.
https://www.zak-lab.org
Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social Neurophysiologist working on motor control and neural population dynamics. Assistant Prof. at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
https://sauerbreilab.org/
Aleesa Schlientz @aleesaschlientz.bsky.social Postdoctoral scholar @ Oegema/Desai labs, UC San Diego | Bowerman lab & UOregon alumna | Dungeons and Dragons Enthusiast | Painter of Tiny Things | she/her
Ava Carter @avacarter16.bsky.social Neuronal gene regulation, activity, and transposons. Postdoc @HMS, incoming Assistant prof @ WashU Dev Bio
Patricia Nano @prnano9.bsky.social Postdoc @bhadurilab.bsky.social
Human brain development + single-cell omics
Ally Girasole @agirasole2121.bsky.social Mom | Wife | Neuroscientist | Postdoc in the Sabatini Lab @ HMS | Basal ganglia function in health & disease | Leading Edge Fellow
Cortical Development Conference 2025 @corticodevelopment.bsky.social Cortical Development Conference 2025
Neural Stem Cells to Neural Circuits
Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy
Date: 25 May to 28 May 2025
Organizers: G Fishell, AR Kriegstein, Z Molnár and F Vaccarino
@corticaldev2025
Georgina Craig @georgina-craig.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher and oligodendrocyte/myelin enthusiast in the Miron Lab @ Unity Health Toronto 🔬🧠🧬👩🔬| PhD in the Gonsalvez lab @ unimelb 🇦🇺🇨🇦
Srimayee @srimayee.bsky.social Graduate student at Academia Sinica
Star gazing at the brain
Airi Yoshimoto @airiyoshimoto.bsky.social postdoc @Stanford Liqun Luo lab, brain-body interplay🧠
Annie Ly, PhD @anniely.bsky.social PhD Graduate in Behavioral Neuroscience @Boulder, CO from Dave Root Lab
Ashley G. Anderson @agarginine.bsky.social BCM Postdoc in the Zoghbi lab | UTSW Neuroscience (Konopka lab alum) | Overall worried scientist
Lucia ichino @lichino.bsky.social Postdoc in the Wysocka lab at Stanford
Passionate about chromatin and Gene regulation 🧬
Tara Raam @tararaam.bsky.social neuroscience K99 postdoc @UCLA 🧠 • reclaimed californian 🌞 • studying mouse collectives, concerned with the human collective 🐭 • she/her
www.tararaam.com
Emily Liman @emilyliman.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience at USC (Los Angeles), #OTOP proton channels
Marty Yang @martyyang.bsky.social Postdoc in Bhaduri Lab @ UCLA
Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
caitlin.gilbert@washpost.com ✉️
caitlingilbert.24 on signal
@caitlingilbertdata on tiktok/ig
🎭⚽️🎮 + other thoughts
washingtonpost.com/people/caitlin-gilbert
wrongnumber.beehiiv.com
Katarzyna A. Dudek @katarzynaadudek.bsky.social Outdoors 🏞 and tea enthusiast🍵 Studying neurovasculature and endocannabinoid system in stress resillience👩🔬
Isabelle Arnoux @isabellearnoux.bsky.social Neuroscientist at College de France in Paris🧠🔬👩🔬
Interested in neuron-glia interactions during behavior
Dr. Sedona Murphy @sedonamurphy.bsky.social Group leader @mpi-mg, Berlin
Chromatin tracing, epigenetics, development. Equity and advocacy in academia.
Sumin Kim @suminkim.bsky.social Postdoc in Anders Hansen Lab @MIT
Fascinated by nuclear organization, neurons, and imaging 🔬 | Leading Edge Fellow | she/her
Alexandre Varga @alexandrevarga.bsky.social phd student in neuroscience
university of bonn
https://henneberger-lab.com
Ginger Smith @gingerms.bsky.social Postbac fellow | neuroglia 🌟 | future PhD student 🤞🏻🧠 | uva alum
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social "There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
Jocelyn Olvera @jgolvera.bsky.social
(Tristan) Qingyun Li @tristanli-lab.bsky.social Assistant Professor at WashU Neuroscience and Genetics. Study microglial biology and neuroimmunology in brain development and disease.
Lab website: sites.wustl.edu/tristanlilab
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
Lauren Reynolds @laurenmac.bsky.social an american neuroscientist in paris • CNRS researcher in @faurelab.bsky.social at ESPCI Paris • PhD McGill • she/her/elle
Tonie Farris, Ph.D. @toniefarris.bsky.social Nature Lover | Neuroscientist 🧠| Postdoc fellow at Duke University | Leading Edge Fellow 2025
Xiaoyun Ding @xyding.bsky.social Glial biologist studying myelin and neuron-glia interactions at Baylor College of Medicine
NEI K99 Fellow | Leading Edge Fellow
ZhenggangZhu @zhenggang.bsky.social Sanford Fellow @UCSDCompassion Alumni @HHMI, Identifying 🧬 for self/social motivation with 3D spatial omics
Maria Clara Selles @clariselles.bsky.social PostDoc at @NYLH_Neuro
@pewhealth fellow
Interested in oxytocin, astrocytes and social interactions 👩🏻🔬🧠
Erik Van Dis @erikvandis.bsky.social Immunologist and Damon Runyon fellow in the Stetson lab at UW, interested in innate immunity and cell death.
Previously at Berkeley, Carleton College and Rocky Mountain Labs
María Olvera @mariaocalt.bsky.social Mexicana 🇲🇽 👩🏽🔬🧠 active reader passive writer #LatinxInSTEM
Seneca Scott @senecascott.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD candidate studying cortical dynamics and neuromodulation across body states.
NINDS Kirschstein Fellow, Moore Lab, Brown University; Prev. Katz Lab, Brandeis University
Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social Associate Professor, Teaching Stream @UTSC Psych & GD-PCS 🇨🇦 Opinions my own. (he/him)
Therapy mechanisms & preferences (CBT, MDD, PTSD, dropout); meta-analysis & meta-science; hidden curriculum & sci comm.
Lately: psychology & videogames 🎮👾
Carol Shoshkes Reiss, Ph. D. @carolshoshkesreiss.bsky.social Professor Emerita, NYU
Editor-in-Chief, DNA & Cell Biology
Mentor; always learning; grandmother
No DMs, please
Ines Sturmlechner @inessturmlechner.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at UW Madison, K99/R00 awardee, studying the aging immune system, Leading Edge fellow, former AFAR/Glenn Foundation fellow | PhD, cellular senescence at University Groningen and Mayo Clinic | MSc, tRNA maturation at IMBA Vienna
sinan malik @sinanmalik.bsky.social RA @juliesemmelhack.bsky.social Lab| systems neuroscience | writes @preLights
erik @fleischel.bsky.social UVA Neuroscience PhD Candidate training in the Sontheimer Lab // Modeling Astrocyte Heterogeneity in Disease
Debanjana Das @debanjanad.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD candidate at Texas A&M School of Medicine
Neuron-glia interactions, neurodegeneration, sleep, plasticity
Rebecca Suthard @rsuthard.bsky.social postdoc in the ramirez lab | 2p imaging astrocyte-neuron calcium dynamics in memory ⭐️| neuro phd from @bostonu | previously mcdannald lab @bostoncollege | she/her
Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social Clinical Neuroscientist 🧠 | Head of Ben-Zion Resilience & Recovery Lab 💪 | Assistant Professor at Haifa University & Yale University 🎓🇮🇱🇺🇸
Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social
Donté Alexander (Alex) Stevens @dalexstevens.bsky.social Hanna Gray Fellow | Postdoc in the Lasker Lab @scrippsresearch | PhD from Reck-Peterson Lab @UCSanDiego | Dog and plant dad 🐕 🐕 🐕 🪴l 👨🏾🔬 He/Him/His
Anna Kalisvaart @akalisva.bsky.social Instructor in Neuroscience @BurkeNeuroSci & @WeillCornell
Translational stroke researcher (Intracerebral Hemorrhage) | PhD @UAlberta 🇨🇦 | Microscopy, cycling, & linocut geek. Views are my own.
Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at the NIH.
NIH Fellows United/UAW 2750 Steward.
Bethesda Declaration Signer.
All opinions are my own.
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
https://www.instagram.com/jmnorton
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennajmn
https://linktr.ee/declarationsofdissent
NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.
Sofía Vieto @sofivieto.bsky.social PhD candidate @Yale in Andres Hidalgo's Lab.
Macrophages, metabolism & aging.
Costa Rican 🇨🇷
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
Donate here: https://bit.ly/SUFS_GIVING
Learn more ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
Sofia Lopez-Kawa, PhD @remisofiak.bsky.social Fronteriza (she/ella)
Research Administrator @ University of New Mexico
Former Behavioral Neuroscience Researcher
Christina Ramelow @christinaramelow.bsky.social 🧠 PhD Candidate | Rangaraju & Sloan labs | Emory University | NRSA fellow | SfN NSP & McNair alum | neuroimmunology, glia, DEI, teaching & mentoring
Calista Dean @calistardean.bsky.social PhD student @ Wake Forest Med | neuroimmunology, pharmacology, & behavior 💥| amateur mycologist | lover of cats, theatre, & Appalachia
Ileana Morales @reallyile.bsky.social PhD from Berridge Lab at University of Michigan| Current postdoc in Alhadeff Lab at Monell| DSPAN F99/K00
Elena Daoutsali @elenadaoutsali.bsky.social Molecular Biologist exploring glial cell crosstalk in Alzheimer's disease | iPSCs | Brain organoids
Postdoc at Hol lab/Dept Translational Neuroscience @UMC Utrecht
Ludovica Guetta @ludovicaguetta.bsky.social PhD student @ Francis Crick Institute & King's College London | Slightly obsessed with astrocytes, currently studying how to model their morphology and function using human IPSCs in the Serio Lab.
bry :) @bvilnaigre.bsky.social neuroscience phd student 🧠👩🏾🔬 | science policy advocate
Biological Imaging and Neuroanalysis Core Facility @csu-bin.bsky.social | Colorado State University |
| Core Manager: Savannah Rocha-Wrigley |
| Core Director: Ron Tjalkens |
Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social Research group leader @German Cancer Research Center, reconstructing human development and disease using cell fate engineering
Damian Toczydlowski @damiantoczydlowski.bsky.social Epigeneticist, Scientist & Molecular Biologist studying epigenetic cellular memory, epigenetic inheritance & mechano-epigenomic code in gliomas.
#epigenomics #epigenetics #singlecell #chromatin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/damian-toczydlowski/
Henna Jäntti @hennajantti.bsky.social Postdoc curious about glia-synapse interactions in psychiatric conditions & Industrial designer making scientific illustrations for fun
Wiesje Pelkmans @wiesjepelkmans.bsky.social Postdoc at Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center | Alzheimer's disease | Neuroscientist | Neuroimaging | Biomarkers | PhD from Alzheimer Center Amsterdam 🧠 📈 🏳️🌈
Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Group Leader @ Blizard Institute, QMUL: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, AAV // Travelling, turtles, & tea. Views my own. #FirstGen #WomenInSTEM
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/blizard/all-staff/profiles/cara-croft.html
Ishita Ajith @ishitaajith.bsky.social 🧠 Neuroscience PhD student 3D modelling FTD using iPSCs @paquetlab.bsky.social | PGRN pathway research | Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research | LMU Munich
https://www.isd-research.de/paquetlab
UK Glia Network @ukglia.bsky.social The UK Glia Network brings together researchers from or working in the UK who are passionate about glia.
@sadagurski.bsky.social @sadagurski.bsky.social PI Neurobiology & Aging lab, Associate Prof Wayne State University; environmental stressors, hypothalamus, neuroinflammation, diabetes. Views own. https://s.wayne.edu/sadagurski-lab/
Valentina Mosienko @dr-vmosienko.bsky.social @ukri.org MRC CDA Fellow @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobppn.bsky.social #Immunopsychiatry #glia #stress #mentalhealth. Editor @jphysiol.bsky.social #ScienceForUkraine mom 🧑🧑🧒 Founder @ukglia.bsky.social
Bivas Nag @thinkingcortex.bsky.social 1st year grad student (DSCB) @ucsf || #firstgen #immigrantscientist || Master Thesis Student (Pattabiraman lab, Sestan Lab, @YaleCSC) Alumni @LMUMunich
Alexis Brake @alexisbrake.bsky.social UMiami MSTP GR1, biomedical engineer, aspiring neuroimmunologist-scientist 🧠
Currently researching glial cholesterol homeostasis in #MS and #neurodegeneration in the Liebl and Brambilla Labs
Paloma Liton @palomaliton.bsky.social Eye Scientist 👩🔬 interested in #autophagy, #glaucoma, astrophotographer-enthusiast 🔭. Views are my own
Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics of plant-insect interactions. Sault Tribe Chippewa. Assistant Prof @ Arizona State University.
Dr Paul Weightman Potter @drwp.bsky.social 🧠🔬 Neuroscientist | Research Fellow @Exeter
💥 Traumatic Brain Injury | 🧪 Immunometabolism
🦠 Microglia, Astrocytes & Brain Energy
🏉 Sport-Related Head Injuries | 🚀 Researching Neurodegeneration
📍 UK | 🏈 American Footballer and current GB Lion
Emma F Jones @emmafjones.bsky.social Postdoc in the Dougherty Lab at WashU using transcriptomics to understand neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders
🧬🧠✨
Scientist, artist, cook, cat (and dog) lover
She/her
Abhideep Roy @abhideeproy.bsky.social PhD student, Neuroscience, CSIR Fellow, Alzheimer's disease, Neurotherpeutics, and Protein Aggregates.
#Braindisease #Drugdiscovery #Academia
Jalal Khawaldeh @jalal-khawaldeh.bsky.social Theoretical Scientist | Researcher & Philosopher
Head of Research Department, RO Educational Institute
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jalal-Khawaldeh
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7872-1967
Robert Rosenbaum @robertrosenbaum.bsky.social Associate Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Biological Sciences at U Notre Dame. Theoretically a Neuroscientist.
Anna M. Rosenhauer @thestreamssystem.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Wayne State University with Tanja Jovanovic and the Detroit Trauma Project studying the impacts of adversity and trauma.
Multiply-disabled &-neurodivergent, lived experience, trauma survivor
https://powertotheplurals.com/refractory/
Lindsay De Biase, PhD @debiaselm.bsky.social Assoc. Prof UCLA | Neuroscientist who studies glia (non-neuronal brain cells) and how glia shape brain health throughout the lifespan. Mother and wife. Lover of nature, novels, and really good bread. | Opinions my own.
Mike Dolan @dolanmjg.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Trinity College Dublin
Neuroimmunology | CNS disease and repair.
🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
https://dolanlab-tcd.com/
Natacha Comandante-Lou @natacom.bsky.social Postdoc @ColumbiaUniversity at the Center for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology | systems biology, cell signaling, plasticity 🏳️🌈🇲🇴 (she/her)
SalmasoLab @salmasolab.bsky.social Canada Research Chair, Neuroscientist, Clinician, Astrocyte enthusiast, Molecular psychiatry, sex differences & hormones and behaviour. 👭👬👫🏳️🌈 EDINeuro@CU
Joe L Wilkerson @joewilk.bsky.social Res. Assistant Professor at the University of Utah researching how sphingolipids influence glia and neurons to drive neurodegeneration and metabolic disorders 🏳️🌈📷🏕🥾⛷️
(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social Proud scientist. BRAIN K99/R00. HPC experimental & computational systems neuro. Ephys4life.
Postdoc @NUFeinbergMed w @Disterhoftlab & @SaraASolla.
PhD @MITbiology w/ Matt Wilson
🔬🧠🐀🌈
Maria Bustillo @mbustill.bsky.social developmental biologist, fruit fly enthusiast | Wellesley College alumna | Leading Edge Fellow | she/her 🏳️🌈| views and opinions = mine
Heidi Kletzien @hkletzien.bsky.social Assistant Prof | Genetics, Cell Biology, Development | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Leading Edge
Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social HealthDisparity Researcher who is decolonist, anticolonist, or recolonist/reconquistist. Whatever gets you to see that 1448-1492 was a bad road & that we have to start anew. The West is Dead, get over yourself. Pronouns are todos, omni, (A ∩ & ∪ Ω)
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Rachelle Balez @chellebalez.bsky.social Stem cell alchemist exploring the world of neurodegenerative diseases through mass spec imaging | UOW | HB2 | she/her
César Vargas @neuro-cesar.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying motor control in birds 🐦 Interested in brains, behavior & evolution. Will yap about coffee, politics, and sports
Postdoc @ Sober Lab/Emory; PhD @ Jarvis Lab/Rockefeller | 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
audrey miglietta @audreymigs.bsky.social ucsd ngp phd candidate | daneman lab | bbb and glia ✨